16p + 1 = x^3, and p is a prime number. What is x?
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SQL part1 Question # 1 : you have the following table - User_id , action (post, edit, cancel) , date == > what is the post rate Question # 2 : you have also the following table (active users) - User_id , country , active , date == > What is the average post rate for yesterday for all active users by country
How can you tell if a given coin is biased?
Lets say the population on Facebook clicks ads with a click-through-rate of P. We select a sample of size N and examine the sample's conversion rate, denoted by hat{P}, what is the minimum sample size N such that Probability( ABS(hat{P} - P) < DELTA ) = 95%. In other words (this is my translation), find the minimum sample size N such that our sample estimate hat{P} is within DELTA of the true click through rate P, with 95% confidence.
Given 25 swimmers and a pool with five lanes, what is the minimum number of heats needed to determine the three fastest swimmers in the group?
Pick up a coin C1 given C1+C2 with probability of trials p(h1)=.7, p(h2)=.6 and doing 10 trials. And what is the probability that the given coin you picked is C1 given you have 7 heads and 3 tails?
Given two binary strings, write a function that adds them. You are not allowed to use any built in string to int conversions or parsing tools. E.g. Given "100" and "111" you should return "1011". What is the time and space complexity of your algorithm?
We have a table called ad_accounts(account_id, date, status). Status can be active/closed/fraud. A) what percent of active accounts are fraud? B) How many accounts became fraud today for the first time? C) What would be the financial impact of letting fraud accounts become active (how would you approach this question)?
You have a table with appID, eventID, and timestamp. eventID is either 'click' or 'impression'. Calculate the click through rate. Now do it in for each app.
Common statistical and python related questions. 1) How do you proof that males are on average taller than females by knowing just gender or height. 2) What is a monkey patch 3) How do you get the count of each letter in a sentence
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